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Everything posted by kimmason
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
well yes and if Yoda says so, then I must be doing something wrong...lol...( I watched all the Star wars too) hey argon that new ticker is beautiful.
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Hey JUDE048!
Kims Kinkiness?? lol, you know me well! I am happy to read others stuff and can add my two cents whenever. Mostly though, it is soo nice to have a support system here and then see how everyone else is doing.
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
Wow, I've never been hit by a fish before...thats a new one for tough love for sure! I guess i am frustrated because I am eating /drinking rather approx 8oo or so calories a day, so I don't understand why nothing much. And with a fill and eating something, I can't see how I will be eating so little/less than what I am drinking now that is...although heh heh, I haven't had a BM for days, and maybe I am just full of S**T! BUt most importantly WEIGH to go Mandi!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
Waaaaaay to go Mandi!!!Ye haw!!!!! I am down though and not happy. I have stuck with fluids, ( 'cept one day, but not much) and I musr be consuming maybe 800 or less calories a day and I have GAINED>.........How does that work? I was 297 , now 300, this is sooo frustrating...... I have gained and I am drinking just fluids, I have soup....tomato, yogurt or fat free pudding and . I don't frigging get it. I mean if I am gaining so early in the race....then what will happen later when I am allowed to eat????
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
gawd mandi..if you know.,TELL US. I can't wait!!!
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
Hi It won't cause damage to my band, as Italked today to kathy. No this time is not so much for the band but healing of tummy and not agreat deal. actually up until a bit ago, when I spoke to bandsters , many were allowed to eat normally right up to midnight of their surgery. anyway I stumbled, it happens i am human and that's how I got here, so I am dusting myself off and starting again.
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
You will be great angel bear, when is your surgery? Hey cloe, I feel like my mom is on this post ( YOU) and comes here to bust my chops....lol
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
You will be great angel bear, when is your surgery? Hey cloe, I feel like my mom is on this post ( YOU) lo and comes here to bust my chops....lol
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My first fill
neenagh, I'm not bad..I'm just drawn that way!!!!
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
well cloe I did way worse than you. I am on the first week almost finished of the post op full fluids. well lats night I found my easter eggs the little cadbury ones that i so love and i didn't realize that i had some in my desk, well I ate them all........ waiting to be sick but nope....beginning to wonder if I need to be on full fluids or just have my mouth wired shut???
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Hey JUDE048!
yes jude, so glad today went off fine without a hitch. To the beginning of many great days for you! cheers! kim
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My first fill
woooooo, I don't think so Lana,but your doc Igues has their rules. I know argon ate the same day as a fill and many do, so Ihtink not here what your clinic does. The others here will knwo more, as I am waiting my first fill in sept. Oh anyone going to TBLC on the 22nd I believe it is about the diets pre and post op. thanks Kim
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My first fill
woooooo, I don't think so Lana,but your doc Igues has their rules. I know argon ate the same day as a fill and many do, so Ihtink not here what your clinic does. The others here will knwo more, as I am waiting my first fill in sept. Oh anyone going to TBLC on the 22nd I believe it is about the diets pre and post op. thanks Kim
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My first fill
lol, Nope I am not baaaaad, ( lol, but when I am, I'm GOOD!) some folks can't afford or don't like optifast so then they say cottage cheese and yogurt is fine.I ate loads of vanilla yogurt my fav and lost weight and had the cottage cheese for protein.
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My first fill
ya know I think you should say then f it to the optifast...I mean your liver won't be different with optifast or the cottage cheese/yogurt thing and it worked for me even when I cheated at the last three days....so have yogurt and cottage cheese, you can eat as much as you want..... and then wil find you aren't as hungry. no head rushes/fainting feelings etc.
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My first fill
neenagh. you just might lose it all by yourself, the rate you're going! and no, I couldn't get in saturday either.
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Argon's Activities
thanks yoda..but honestly I didn't do it. computer brainiac Mandi did it for me.
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Argon's Activities
hey MANDI it looks BEAUTIFUL , thank you sooo very much........ just need to change the numbers and I will be esctatic!!!!!
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Argon's Activities
well this is testing my new ticker, thanks to mandi!!!!
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
guess i messed up the ticker thing too, argh
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Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge
mandiTickerFactory.com/ezt/d/3;10101;96;0;1/c/297/t/160/s/320/k/a5e0/weight.png i think i did it ,yay thanks!!!!!! kim
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A thread for super-sized bandsters - starting BMI over 50?
dear Indian light. I was just banded on Aug 10th but I canrelate to you RIGHT now. Idon't think I am the first one to lose weight and because of that work and what went into it, we reward ourselves, thinking it'll be one day, one night etc..and it just goes on and flips the switch. I even cheated on my preop. I was too do cottage cheese/yogurt for 15 days and they gave me one day off cuz of a bbq I was having for my sone and mother and for that day and the day after and the day after I pigged out, right up to the night before my surgery when at midnight i was supposed to stop eating...so just before then, I made a LOAD of nachos with cheese, salsa, olives and sour cream....yup I did that knowing fullwell that maybe in the morning I had screwed up my liver and may need open surgery...thats how we are , how addicted. Oddly enough I ama health care worker too..lol and Icould save your life but perhaps not my own. The precursers to ANY addiction are known as H.A.L.T. feeling HELPLESS, ANGRY, LONELY and then TIRED.....boy I had/have them all, even now. I amnow just under 300 lbs which is a big jump for me and I just want to eat.... So I can see how this has to be life long and we will need our retrictions.(fills) I have not had one yet, I take it, you haven't either. I am waiting for this Fluid, pureed thing to be over so I can eat popcorn.......and after 16,000 dollars if that isn't addictive behaviour I don't know what is. I as are the others on this line are in your corner and know what it is like. The only way you can stop is by actually pushing yourself initailly and I hate it but it only works when you do it as the first few days feel awful, like detox, but then it gets better. I hope you pull through, and will wait to read more posts from you. ANd follow tired old mans response, it was terrific!!! take care. Kim pre op diet 320 surgery date aug 10th, 310, today 297
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What happens after 3-4 years
good post. keep it coming, i am interested inresponses too, since I am a newbie.
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Hey JUDE048!
hey jude.."thatt damned ticker being still a lie" wil only be so for a little while longer, you are doing great even in the humidity we had. I am one of your biggest fans and have a huge amount of respect for you. I also read of your plight with mother etc..and know you have the tenactiy to do what it takes ands yes that band with the woman who does 1000 cal, is pretty disciplined and you can do that, no problem. All the best KIm
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My first fill
hi neenagh, hety i didn't even know you hadn't had surgery yet, that is great and you are already smaler than me...( beiotch) My eldest grant , well I amnot going to work on him as he has a level head and with marriages now adays i want him to chose well , and this sounds horrible but yes i would love grandchildren one day, but I se that normally moms get their kids and i would not want to see him go through that, so I will bide my time til he is ready.He's agreat catch and women love him, but he takes his time and just started his carreer out of university so I can wait..do I have a choice?